Rationale:
It is very important for children to comprehend
while
reading.This goal allows children to
re-tell a story by summarization and understand steps and processes
that
happened in a story.This lesson will
guide children to summarize stories by using summarization steps as a
group and
then individually when they are reading silently or do not have anyone
around
to guide their thinking. They will do this by understanding what is
needed for
them to re-tell a story by picking out the key points.

Materials:
-Paper
-Pencil
-Whiteboard
-Dry Erase Marker

-Highlighter

-A bookmark for
each student with the 5 summarization steps on it
Summarization
steps:
1.
Pick out important details that are necessary to the story.
2.
Pick out the less important or repeated ideas from the
passage and eliminate them.
3.
Highlight the important and necessary details using key words.
4.
Pick a topic sentence
5.
Invent a topic sentence if there is none.
-Copy’s of Space Rock Makes a Crash Landing for each
student.

Procedure:
1. The first question I will ask the student “Do any
of you
know what comprehension means?”I will
wait for the children to respond and review what they have said.“Wonderful! Comprehension has two
parts.The first thing you must do when
you comprehend is to understand what you are reading.The second part of comprehension is to remember
what you have read.You do not have to
remember everything that happened in the story, but you will need to
know
enough key points that you will be able to tell others about the story.Today we are going to learn a couple of steps
that are going to help us comprehend our reading. This new
technique is
called summarization. When we summarize, we choose the most
important
parts of the story or passage that we are reading; this means we
take out
some of the stuff that really doesn’t have anything to do with the main
idea or
the idea the author wanted us to get after reading the story.”

2. Explain summarization. "We have 5 easy
steps
to remember in summarization." Write them on the whiteboard
as
they are explained so students will follow along. "The first
step
is to pick out important details that we think are necessary to the
story. Number two says to pick out the less important ideas or
ideas that
are repeated and take them away. Number three says to highlight
the
important and necessary details using key words. Next, we pick a
topic
sentence. Our last step is to invent a topic sentence if we don’t
have
one. I’m going to pass out bookmarks to each of you that have
these steps
on them so you won’t forget our 5 steps of summarization. The
bookmarks
can be used to help the children.

3. "Alright, now that we are familiar with
comprehension and summarization, we are going to read the first
paragraph from the
article I gave you to put our steps into action. This article has
something falling from the sky.There is
a house below; I wonder where these items will fall?You must read the article to find out.Read
the paragraph SILENTLY to
yourselves. While you are reading, make sure that you are getting
enough
information to summarize the two paragraphs. Remember how
important it is
to try and figure out the important details from the details that are
no that
important when you are summarizing.When
you are finished please put your highlighters down so that we may move
on."

4. When the students are finished reading, I will
summarize
the first paragraph with the entire class to give them explicit
instructions to
make sure that they understand the steps of summarization and how to
put them
into play."When I read the first
paragraph, these are my main points.” Writing the following on the
board: 1. A grapefruit size meteorite crashed
through a roof. 2. The house was in New Zealand. "Does
anyone have anything different, if so would you please share and tell
why you
chose it?” The new ideas would be written on the
board. "I
am going to keep reading to make sure that I use all of the steps on
the
bookmarks.I just finished our first
step and picked out what I thought were the important details. My
next
step is to pick out the less important points from the paragraph.
I think
these would be: 1. The meteorite slammed into a couch.
2. Hit the ceiling. 3. It rolled under a table."
I will write these on the board. "Did anyone get something
different?" If they did, write it on the board. "What
is my next step?" Wait for student to suggest:
highlight
some keywords. "Great job! You’re right. I
thought
that the keywords were grapefruit sized, meteorite, roof, and New Zealand.
Did anybody get
another word?" If they did, write it on the board. "What
do I need to do now?" Wait for student response.“That’s correct! “I am about the
write a topic sentence, this is what I came up:“Writing the sentence on the board,”A grapefruit sized
meteorite
crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand. Did
anyone get
anything else?" For all the students who have something
different, I will write it on the board and discuss why they chose
that. "Good!
Since we just came up with our topic sentence, we don’t need to do step
5 since
that step is to invent a topic sentence." Make sure that all
of
this is written on the board so that they will be able to use it when
they are
reading the rest of the article by themselves.

5. "Is everyone comfortable with summarizing
now?
Great! Now that you are all comfortable with summarizing, I want
you to
read the rest of the article silently and summarize it using our
steps.
If you need any help you can look on the board or at your bookmarks."

6. When they have finished reading silently, they
will
summarize the article on their own. "Now that you are all
finished reading, take out your piece of paper and pencil and summarize
the
article. Make sure that you remember to list the important
details of the
article. Separate the important details from the less important
ones. Then, make sure you list your keywords.Using your keywords and your main points,
form your topic sentence. If you have any questions, please raise
your
hand and I’ll come and help you!"

7. For assessment, I will take up the
student’s
summarizations to see how well they understood the concept. I
will use
the bookmarks as my own checklist to make sure that they used all of
the steps
of summarization correctly.I will walk
around to make sure that they are following the steps written on the
board and
on their bookmarks.There will be sample
answers on the board to help and give student’s ideas of what type
answers they
are looking for to re-tell or summarizes the story.